They used to make you send the entire tag cost in to apply and you got a refund if you didn’t draw.
They kept $3 for the application but you either got the tag or a refund.
Then the first year they did away with that it was just a $7 application fee.
Yep and I had no issue with that
The following year they started making you buy a qualifying license.
Which is total BS.
I don’t like the way CPW does things either. But I wish they’d go back t requiring all the money up front to hopefully cut down on applications.
Agreed, you have to pay for the tag anyway if you draw so may as well put it up front so you have skin in the game
The CO DOW went to hell when they combined it with the Parks Dept. Parks Dept has always been a money pit and the DOW was always self-supporting and used no tax $$$. As soon as they merged the two the DOW $$$ was funneled off to the parks and then they began raising fees. When I was a CO resident I went to a game dept public meeting and asked why hunters were required to buy a habitat stamp but people using the parks were not. After all, the parks are habitat right? They declined to answer my question.
